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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 15d

"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move."
- HHG2tG

Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 8h

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BBC News - Disappointment in Kyiv as Zelensky leaves White House empty-handed
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Disappointment in Kyiv as Zelensky leaves White House empty-handed

Zelensky does not share Trump's apparent confidence that Russia's Putin is acting in good faith.

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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 14h

I’m glad the I Paper editors chose to leave this tangential detail in my post-mortem of yesterday’s Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, just in case there was any lingering doubt over the infantilism of the current US administration.

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Who chose Budapest as the site of a Trumputin meeting? “Your mom”, says the White House.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 23h

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 16h

They still contain real penguin though, right? None of that puffin seasoning.

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 20h

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 17h

As I pessimistically anticipated yesterday, the Russians have succeeded in disrupting the discussion about US Tomahawk deliveries to Ukraine – a discussion that, until Putin’s call to Trump the day before yesterday, had been progressing to Ukraine’s benefit. 1/10

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 16h

>> Western democracies exhibit its subtler [...] practices such as spin, dark-money campaigning, astroturf movements, and data-driven propaganda, which similarly manipulate perception, blur the line between real and manufactured politics, and weaken genuine democratic participation.

Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 16h

>> Methods of political technology range from media manipulation and the use of so-called trolls or bots online, to manufacturing public consent through fake campaigns, staged controversies, and selective information intended to distort how people perceive politics.

Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 2d

After the collapse of Prigozhin’s troll empire, Russia’s Social Design Agency emerged as the Kremlin’s new private contractor, integrating commercial “political technology” into a state-controlled system of political warfare against Europe: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-kremli...

The Kremlin’s New Contractors

Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 19h

Says woman on double date. *

* For balance

Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 19h

Says man on double date.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 19h

So, there's the tantalising possibility that with the right levers Magans could be converted into Hippies. "Jesus" robes, sandals, outdoor cooking, victim complex.

Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

"Growing up in the eighties..."

He was born in 1982.

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Here's CBS' report on it. Got charged with child endangerment too.

www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/m...

Miami man claiming to be ICE agent arrested for DUI with children in Florida Keys, deputies say

A Miami man who claimed to be an ICE agent was arrested in the Florida Keys for DUI and child endangerment, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.

www.cbsnews.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

You ever dance with The Devil in the pale moonlight? I ask that of all my prey.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee

The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Do not use a football match to start equating fans of a specific Israeli football team with all Jews, because that is supposed to be what responsible politicians are trying to avoid in condemning Israeli bombing but not associating this with a religion.

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

Similar thought about the Home Office not being here. How am I supposed to know that they're posting stuff like this if they only post it at the other place?

X post:

Home Office

@ukhomeoffice

British workers must come first.

We are ensuring employers now invest in homegrown talent by raising the charge on hiring foreign workers by 32%.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 1d

It's a big shame that the DfE and Ofsted aren't on here (Ofsted is but in name only) because they need to hear feedback from all parts of the profession. I used to think they didn't read tweets back in the old place but then I did a subject access request and found that oh boy they certainly do! 1/2

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

Tim Firth wrote the 1993 TV drama "Money for Nothing," a story about a schoolboy named Gary Worrall who aims to make a million pounds during his half term. It was part of the BBC's Screen One anthology series and was directed by Mike Ockrent.
Writer: Tim Firth
Director: Mike Ockrent
Plot: An ambitious schoolboy named Gary Worrall attempts to make £1 million during his school holiday.
Series: It was one of the dramas in the Screen One series on BBC One.
Release Date: The broadcast date was October 10, 1993.

Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

Wow. The air guitar trophy is really big.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Experience: I am the air guitar world champion

For 60 seconds I gave everything – explosive energy, perfect mime and rock star charisma. I think I blacked out from shock when they said I’d won

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

Mood.

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John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day - It's In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves (HD)

YouTube video by rudessjo

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Steve Being @stevebeing.me · 1d

I think the handy "Telltale Signs of Fascism" list has run it's course. PTO for the "What now?" list.

BBC News - Former Trump adviser John Bolton criminally indicted
www.bbc.com/news/article...

John Bolton: Former Trump national security adviser indicted

Bolton is the third of the US president's political opponents to face charges in recent weeks.

www.bbc.com

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 2d

A good moment for other EU states to remind Orban that Hungary is a signatory to the Rome Statute, & there is an outstanding ICC warrant against Putin.

Meanwhile, any European country that values its sovereignty & security needs to pile resources into defending Ukraine & defeating Russia.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and Putin are amazingly best friends again, will meet in Budapest to settle the war. They will try to screw Ukraine I’m sure

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